At the start it seems like Markus is stalking Anita (not confirmed) , but very quickly turns other way around. Anita is obsessed with Markus and does unforgivable things. Not a thriller in the slightest but a warning example of female stalkers and predatory behavior.
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hmusick114 October 2020
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michalgill24 December 2019Unless you're a fan of Tarjei S. Moe or like to watch a bland story of two sociopaths hooking up, this movie isn't for you. I'm the first case (fan of TSM) but even I didn't like it. The story is weak and even good actors can't save it. I can't really give you a reason to waste 90 minutes of your life on this
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preben_hassel28 January 2019Bad introduction Slow paced S**t ending Spare yourself
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noelpiriz24 July 2019During this movie I found myself watching this woman, doing and taking it all wrong from the start. And as I was starting to judge her I couldn't help but feel for her. With that being said, I cannot understand why they describe the movie as a thriller, for if it is, it must be a very light form of it. Secondly, it's never proven if she was followed or stalked by anyone, and if she was, it wasn't proven by whom. Anyways, good movie.
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lyu-219094 June 2020I liked it. Real, believable characters, slow but intense development of the story. This actress is amazing - I felt for her and hated her at the same time. Good cinema
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It is thouroughly hard to sympathize with any of the characters in the movie. They are all doing stupid actions over and over again, in the sake of "lust". Many of the scenes are thouroughly unbeliveable in the way they are portrayed. Also, the nordic noir style of the movie seems unappropriate. The actors are doing a decent job with the material they are given, but when your actors are realistically representing unsympathetic characters, in a story that seems unrealistic, then it is hard to be engaged in what is happening.
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octmi25 August 2019The main character Annita is being stalked by a student from her class. After he got her interest by using tricks like buying her flowers and entering her car without being invited, he dumps her because "'she was 50 years old" in his own words. Annita is a very sensitive women, once falling in the passion trap cannot stop herself. The movie is a drama about criminalizing of women having affairs, when in fact the man, her student was causing the whole situation in the first place. The drama is showing that men are in general interested in the exterior appearance of women and how young they are also in the case of the marriage of Annita with a man known via internet and not being in love, in the case of the student falling in love on other attractive student. If a women like Annita falls due to passion and cannot stop herself their is no understanding for her actions from the people who knew her. What is more her husband ignores her pain and takes her as an object without feelings from beginning till the end. Is this what to expect from an educated man?
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lareval24 August 2021This movie surprised me by how much kept me invested with the story. It's not for everyone and takes turns that other films wouldn't. But aside from its flaws, it is a steamy and well crafted character driven drama with erotism.
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andredejongh31 March 2020Ignore reviews with titles like 'Not Worth It' ... probably written by a 12 year old. Beautiful film. Very well acted. Sensitive subject about a middle aged woman In a cold loveless marriage. As a PE teacher arriving at a new school she is seduced in a quite forward and risqué way by her underaged student. She doesn't push him away. On the contrary. His virility and passion awakens something inside her, it makes her feel alive. She doesn't shy away from risky behaviour. We learn she used to be a gymnast but she had to stop practicing this career because she broke her neck while training. This probably changed her whole life and the easiest choice was then to become a PE teacher. Her husband doesn't show lots of affection. Her and her husband's house is a grey modern building made of cold materials: glass and iron. The decoration is also dark and greyish. During a dinner evening with her husband's colleagues we learn he doesn't want them to know that she is working. He is ashamed of her. A PE teaching position probably isn't as glamorous as being a lawyer, or as being a professional athlete for that matter. It is suggested that she and her husband met via a dating app where they were first and foremost sexually attracted to each other. After 5 years of marriage this attraction died out. He has children, so she is his second of third or whatever wife. She has none. During a recital of Tchaikovsky's music for Swan Lake she sobs. This is her Swan song. The Black Swan is dying. Her marriage is dying, her youth is dying, although the youth inside her is still very much alive. She feels a real connection with the boy but the boy eventually doesn't connect with her on an emotional level. She's almost 50 in his eyes. Way too old to have a real relationship with. The woman becomes obsessed and behaves irrational, destroying her career, marriage and her social standing. Along the way we also learn she has a disturbed relationship with her mother, lacking the love we all need, since childhood. No Hollywood happy ending. She is punished but allowed to go her own way while still trying to understand herself what happened and what she has done. Her instincts were stronger than her rational abilities. All or nothing. In the end she got nothing, just sitting there with her small box of material possessions while the world around her just continues to exist.
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powerpuffirwin6 May 2020The plot of the movie was hard to get good reactions for the audieance its one of the hardest plots to make a movie on and to present them to the public. At least for my country. To make a comment on movie, technically it was all fine, It finished within a blink of an eye. But there were some parts of the movie that I disagreed or couldnt understand most probably.
The first part is where Anita followed him, forced him to do in the car and get him in a difficult situation by telling him that she is having a baby. They were all horrible things and she did it to him. So she never did anything good to him but then at the end Magnus said "You are a good woman." and made peace with her. I mean I wouldn't do peace to any teacher that did these kinds of things.
Then Magnus's mother's reaction could have been added more into the movie and I also would like to see his mother like trying everything to give the worst punishment to Anita.
And the last is, Anita was crazy of Magnus because she had z lack of sexual life or mental problems through the time so she has started to become obssesed to Magnus. But when everything come out she just forgot Magnus. The reaction to come out was successful but to forget her obsesion to Magnus in a minute was no sense to me.
But I can't say a word on actors, producer as I said technically it is a perfect movie. Like the actors were all professional since it is a hard role to take. But do I reccomend this movie? You wouldn't lose anything if you watch or don't. -
random-7077821 February 2020Just imagine if the genders in this film were reversed the people hailing it would be condemning it as a excuse for rape. And we are seeing rape portrayed here. While 16 maybe the age of consent in many countries, in EVERY developed country there is a specific exclusion of consent if the adult involved is a teacher or person with supervisory/"en loco parentis" role, ie a teacher etc. this film actually blames the young man who is a rape victim.
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ding-2900212 November 2022The director actually portray anita as bad at end and markus as gud at end
its unfair actually
markus is the real bastard and stalker
he only made anita get horny and made her to fell in love with him
love has no age and anitas character in the movie is actually she can get horny easily she doesnt get that from mosse so got that comfort from markus thats y she done all the acts to make makrkus focus only on her
love is a mixture of lust and possessiveness if thise ingredients not there its not called love
if im the markus i will surely acceot anita as my life partner because ive the one who make her horny at first. -
OJT7 October 2018An affair (En affære in Norwegian) is productive film maker Henrik Martin Dalsbakken's fifth film, and his best so far. The film really show his talent as a young film maker, and should be a festival hit around the world.
We meet the middle aged newly appointed sports teacher Anita (played by Andrea Bræin Hovig), when she meets a new class af 16 year olds at her new work place. She's been married for five years with a husband who have two grown up daughters, that both has left home. He travels a lot in his work, and leaves Anita to her own fantasies. Already on the meeting with the class Anita is challenged by Markus, as he at her introduction, when she asks for their name and a fun fact about themselves, he tells he is well equipped. Soon afterwards she gets the feeling of being watched and followed. Soon messages and flowers start turning up, and a text message is answered with a shock message. This is the start of an affair they both seem to wish. A troublesome and forbidden affair.
The film is a drama thriller about going too far with a fantasy. As such it is done well. The film is both able to be creepy, cringy, exciting, as well as funny and well made. The humour serves as well put comic relief, as the film is quite graphic in both sex scenes as well as the chances they take. Thay co,me through dialogue and questions, where Anita impossibly can answer with small little white lies.
Small, well played roles by well known Norwegian actors add to the quality of the film, and the dialogue functions well. So the script is definitely Dahlsbakken's best so far.
The production value of the film is good. So far the best of Dahlsbakken's five outings, which tells he is refining his talent. So is his brother's photography. Their joint company FilmBros are definitely going somewhere, and they also have three new films on the way. Well worth a watch! -
Angry_Santa18 April 2020Though the story couldn't have been expanded on much further owing to time constraints (few people want to watch a three-hour epic these days), what was shown was complete and chillingly real.
Dahlsbakken could've gone crazy the way of "Fatal Attraction," but thankfully kept both feet on the ground - and created a masterpiece.
Anyone who's been involved in "forbidden fruit" of any kind (be it like this, or a simple extramarital affair) will know just how quickly and how completely things go pear-shaped, and that rollercoaster was perfectly portrayed here.
The actors - all of them, including the supporting cast - did a brilliant job. I rarely get to see Norwegian cinema so don't know how accomplished each of them are, but they were all first-class in this movie.
Seriously one of the best movies I've seen in years. -
DarijaVk1 November 2023This movie left me baffled at the end.
At first I must say that both Tarjei and Andrea did a great job; the casting for this movie was totally on point. I am kind of biased when it comes to Tarjei since he is one of my favorite actors ever since I've seen him in Skam and recently in Skitten sno.
When the movie started I figured Markus was the one doing the stalking, but as the story progressed it became obvious that my first impression was wrong.
I do kind of feel sorry for her considering how it ended, especially because it seems that her husband might have had a role in instigating the affair. Or at least welcomed it to end his marriage, as it was obvious from the beginning he did not show much affection to his wife.
I'm still unsure what did he mean when he told her not to tell his colleagues that she has a job. What was that all about?
In conclusion, loved the movie, loved Tarjei who was amazing as always, but I keep wondering was Anita a victim of her own weaknesses and the husband's plot to get rid of her. -
A good tutorial: How to ruin lives in a disgusting way - 101. Pervercy at its best!
A movie which approaches teacher and student relationship in a different perspective :) Young boy/Old child tricks his gym teacher with what he learned from porn and surprisingly teacher buys it. A kid's dick photo!? Are you real ma'am!??
Dumb boy would never ask if she has problems with her social life, her husband, her family/mother, her career etc. Just wanted to use her as a breathing doll. Poor woman ruined lives around her instead of setting herself free. I am very curious if that young boy will ever have healthy relationships with women a while later he finished his popsicle...
Forbidden fruit was always delicious, it is now and will be forever... I think movie says what matters is not if we want to taste it, it is how we taste it.
Certainly worth to watch. 10 out of 10. -
halis-5512926 June 2022It is a very good movie that portrays a very sick situation, and ends how it has to end when something like this happen.
I see that some people in here say it is a bad movie. I do not understand anything of this. -
Rainzzz19 April 2022Perhaps I will express an unpopular opinion, but ... this is the way. She simply lacked human warmth, you just look at her husband? This is a living corpse. What can he give her? With the mother, the relationship did not work out, in the nearest surroundings only housewives discussing another book for a glass of wine ... It is completely alone in the whole world. And here this guy is broken into her life. With him, she can be for the first time in his whole life felt alive. Naturally, she grabbed him as a straw, became obsessed with them. So obsessed that I could not think about anything else, and I do not blame her. But the guy, unfortunately, grew only physically, but he thinks as a child. After all that was, he calmly declares that he fell in love with a classmate. Especially he had taken a scene at the end, where he with ice cream melts himself under the nose, that he is very sorry, but now he can go to Berlin.
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sweetjanne8 August 2021At first I thought it was completely unrealistic and too much "Fatal attraction". Then I thought of various documentaries. Reality often surpasses the imagination. There are people who get completely engrossed and do crazy things. I went to primary school in the 70s, there was a relationship between some young teachers and students. At that time they did not worry about it. There was no talk about it I think the most exciting thing is .. "Was it arranged by her husband so he could throw her out with nothing. If she had demanded something in court it was all come out in the media.
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cengizsogutlu23 May 2022No young horny fella will refuse mature teacher craving for sausage.. That's the wet dream of young men. Having relationship with hottest girl in the classroom+ teacher. There was no logic in the movie more like life lesson to female teacher that they will be labeled as h.ore..